Eastern Armenia on the Eve of the Russian Conquest: The Khanate of Erevan Under the Governorship of Hoseyn Qoli Khan Qajar 1807-1827, by George A. Bournoutian, in 264 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. This is the author's invaluable Ph.D. dissertation (UCLA, 1976).

From the Abstract: "There exists no detailed account of the socioeconomic and political conditions of a particular Persian province during the nineteenth century. One such region is the Khanate of Erevan, which, in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, formed a strategic base against the Russian advance into Transcaucasia. Faced with the loss of the lands north of the Aras River, the Persian state in 1807 appointed a capable governor, Hoseyn Qoli Khan Qajar, as the sole ruler of the Khanate of Erevan. The next two decades the khan transformed a deteriorated province into a well-administered and self-sufficient region. His uninterrupted rule of twenty years was only ended when the Russians conquered the area...The intention of the present study is to examine the Persian, Armenian, and Russian archival and published sources and to narrate a detailed account of a particular Persian province in a limited time period. It is also the intention of this work to prove that the Khanate of Erevan, under the governorship of the last khan, was not the terrible dungeon described by some authors but in fact was one of the better administered regions of the Persian state."

1. Historical Sketch
2. The Land
3. The Muslim Population
4. The Armenian Population
5. The Administrative Structure
6. The System of Land Tenure
7. The Methods of Taxation
8. Urban and Rural Society: The Economic Life of the Khanate
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix

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